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Originally Posted by marina
Take spelling for instance. Spelling could be hideous for people trying to learn the language ....Why is womb pronounced woom and comb pronounced coam? And how about *nausea*?  |
Everybody wants to convince us that english is the easiest language but we know better! If you learn english by listening, you can't read or write, and if you learn english out of books only, you don't understand the spoken words.
An example: How would you pronounce the fictive word 'ghoti'?
gh: enou-
gh ->[inu-
f]
gh->f
o: w-
o-men ->[w-
i-min]
o->i
ti: na-
ti-on->[nei-
sh-n]
ti->sh
Result: 'ghoti' is pronounced 'fish'. 
English is irrational and totally strange! So let's choose norwegian (or Boknorsk or Nymal or whatsoever) as our official EU 'esperanto' language.
